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Inception's Misconceptions About Lucid Dreaming

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Tyler Johnston
Mrs. Hannon
Psychology
October 19th, 2015
Inception's Misconceptions About Lucid Dreaming Christopher Nolan's 2010 film, "Inception" depicts a world where corporate espionage runs rampant through dream stealing (specifically lucid ones) and can easily be controlled using something called a PASIV device. While although the movie has an interesting topic, the accuracy shown in the movie of lucid dream manipulation falls flat, due to the fact the most of its logic has not been proved by modern studies and findings. To understand why this is, we have to look all the way back to the origin of study in lucid dreaming and the discoveries that have been made from it. Lucid dreaming has been an interesting topic for many years and the history of it stretches past all the way to 1000 BCE when the first textual descriptions of lucid dreaming were made. The Upanishads as well as the Bhairav Tantra were created by ancient Hindus, which are a collection of texts that teaches spiritual lessons and philosophy of ancient Hinduism and …show more content…

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